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PVF -- please send!

Edward Powell - 5-23-2011 at 03:43 AM

Hi Friends...

I have just finished building a new ragmakamtar and I really want to get the nylon strings sounding great, but I am realizing that I will need to experiment with plenty of string types and guages.

I think that PVF will sound the best, but because this is a very unusual original instrument it is not clear which guages will sound the best...

...therefore ideally I would like to be able to try out a whole range of guages before finally ordering full size coils of these strings.

I know that many of you have been ordering and using Seaguar fluorocarbon premier leader... and from reading various threads, can see that some of you prefer different thicknesses...

What I would like to ask is if some of you who have some of this Seaguar fluorocarbon premier leader - if you would be willing to send to me 2 meter samples of whatever guages you might have. I am very happy to pay you for the strings and postage - if you have PAYPAL I can pay immediately.

My hope is to be able to quickly and affordably acquire a very wide range of PVF guage samples in order to test all of them and find the best for my new instrument.

Thanks so much!
Edward